Wilmington NC squad experiment

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I know Indianapolis has squads like that in high response areas. They are ALS and light rescue and first due on EMS runs out of their stations.
 
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FDNY ran squads during War Years which responded in small vans or bread trucks. No pumper apparatus initially, but carried tools and masks. Purpose was primarily manpower at jobs. Squads had officer and 4 or 5 FFs. Squads were located in busy battalions and had large response areas. Most had up to 5000-8000 runs a year. Squad companies proved to be much more usefill when equipped with a pumper and then could act independently at a car fire, garbage, food on stove, etc. Later version of FDNY squad is current SOC model.
 
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FDNY manpower squads were organized during World War II when engine and truck companies were depleted due to members serving in the military. There was no minimum staffing agreements and engine or truck companies might only have had 1 or 2 FFs on the back step or on the H&L running board.
 
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FDNY War Years (later 1960s to 1980s) squads were organized to supplement the overwhelming number of fires, emergencies and false alarms that could not be handled with so many engine and truck companies doing 4000-8000 runs. Chiefs could use a responding squad as an engine or truck because a working fire often did not have full assignments available. But they could not operate effectively without another pumper or aerial ladder assigned.
 
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But those earlier FDNY eras did not have the tremendous demand of EMS responses.
 
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